Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bankers wondered if that was wise. One wondered aloud: "I guess Giannini knows what he is doing . . . but you can't get a damn cent out of real-estate loans when the bottom drops...
...mere housewife can do, I guess, is put out [a] cry of distress and have an oil furnace in the new house she hopes to build, instead of the coal stoker she originally planned. I don't intend to struggle with John L. Lewis every spring-for spring comes once a year...
...seems to me that because horses are destroyed by barn fires it should not be looked upon as the final answer to the equine's intelligence. It is my guess that if a deer and a horse were side by side during an approaching forest fire, they would both move in the direction of safety. Moreover, many a horse-wise Westerner would probably lay a bet with omniscient Mr. Buck that the horse would be the one that would escape...
Purchasing agents listened with the same anxiety with which Washington watched the momentary upcurve of wages and prices. Businessmen guess that the U.S. consumer is already fed up with high prices and poor quality. From California came hints of a buyers' strike in real estate. A Los Angeles dealer reported that his volume had "fallen off 75% in the last 60 days." On the heels of the labor strikes, which had helped push prices up by raising wages and curtailing production, a general buyers' strike might well be in the making. A short one might be a good...
...President had acted no one seemed to know, least of all CAB. Best guess seemed to be that it was the work of brasshats who have often been miffed by Pan Am's way of doing business. If so, their plan may yet backfire. As long as so many domestic lines are to compete with Pan Am abroad, CAB will be hard put to it to find logical reasons why Pan Am should not compete with them at home, as it wants...